Yuan Wuxian
One of the Seven Immortals of the Supreme Bliss Cult, and son of the "Strange Ape in the Wind", Yuan Chengfeng.
After Yuan Chengfeng disfigured his mother, she fled pregnant to Jinxiang Palace for refuge. Along the way she gave birth to Yuan Wuxian in a river, and he was swept away. Monkeys in the mountains picked him up and raised him, then hunters caught him, and he drifted at last to the Jin Kingdom, where he was shut in a cage with a monkey and performed tricks in the streets, and so just barely escaped starving.
After his birth mother reached Jinxiang Palace, she doted on Nangong Qian and, in place of Lady Wen, sent him to the Nangong Family. When Yuan Wuxian learned of his origins by and by, he came to hate Nangong Qian. Acting together with Jing Hong, he stole a letter from the Beggar Sect and laid a scheme that made Nangong Qian himself bring about Lady Wen's death.
Notes
- The claim that Lady Wen is Nangong Qian's birth mother rests for now only on Yuan Wuxian's one-sided word, and whether it is true is uncertain.
- He claims to be of Emei's Wu generation, the same generation as .
- Zhao Huo curses him roundly as a mountain monkey who has trained himself into a spirit.
- As one of the New Seven Immortals of the Supreme Bliss Cult, he appears alongside Tang Zheng to guard Shentu Long when Tang Buyi's assassination fails.